House Speaker Paul Ryan urged Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to clarify his comments about the Second Amendment that critics said amounted to a call for an attack against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. I am humbled and moved by the Republicans willing to stand up and say Donald Trump doesn’t represent their values. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks.
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Liz Mair, a Republican consultant who has been critical of Trump, said the candidate is damaging himself and the party, perhaps for years to come.
However, two of Trump’s most visible SC backers, North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey and Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster, said there was no cause for fear and that the reaction has been overblown.
Ms Clinton was talking in Des Moines, Iowa, and facing the other way as a woman launched herself over the barrier and towards the stage.
Gov. Pat McCrory spoke at the Wilmington rally, where he praised Trump as an “outsider” the country needs to “change Washington, D.C.” and enforce immigration laws. I’m eager to see how many so-called “Second Amendment people” vote for the Libertarian, Gary Johnson. No statement was provided. But Trump’s remark was still widely interpreted as a suggestion that gun owners could assassinate Clinton if she is elected president. Conservative commentator John Podhoretz tweeted that Trump “not only implied assassination, he implied that 2nd-Amendment supporters are all potential assassins”.
Clinton’s campaign now has a website for Republicans and political independents to sign up in support of Clinton. Trump’s team, too, was using the controversy to reinforce a theme it’s been pitching to voters: that an underdog Trump is being unfairly treated by the media.
In the last few weeks alone, Trump has drawn scorn for insulting Gold Star parents, encouraging Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails and suggesting that the USA shouldn’t uphold its NATO obligations unless its allies under the critical treaty pay their fair share of costs. Forest said in an email to a reporter.
– Even among Democrats, 14 percent say they have an unfavorable opinion of Clinton. If not, why not?
Her campaign said Seddique Mateen was not invited to the rally and that Clinton “disavows his support”. The Republican nominee has since said he was referring the tremendous political influence gun-rights supporters hold.
Nonsense. Trump was projecting a post-election world in which Clinton selects judges opposed to gun rights.
Another statewide candidate who has attended a Trump rally, N.C. Supreme Court Justice Bob Edmunds, did not respond to a request for comment.
Clinton’s campaign, seeing an opening, moved to bring disenchanted Republicans into the fold by announcing an official intraparty outreach effort on behalf of the Democratic nominee. Trump shot back with comments that were denounced by many, including Republican leaders, as insensitive.
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Amid the political furor, the Secret Service, responsible for protecting presidential candidates, put out a statement Tuesday, saying that it is “aware of the comments made earlier this afternoon” and did not comment further.
